List of drug-related deaths

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The following is a list of notable people who have died from drug-related causes.

Criteria for inclusion are death from overdose, death from organ-failure/illness due to or exacerbated by druguse, or death from suicide/misadventure under the inuence of drugs. Deaths from lethal injection as a form ofcapital punishment, as well as deaths due to drug-related crime, are not included.

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Name Life Profession Cause of death Reference

Herb 1954 Wrestling Cocaine-related heart attack. [1][2]

Abrams 1996 promoter

Janet 1864 Actress Morphine overdose. [3]

Achurch 1916

Brian 1963 Wrestler Painkiller overdose. Accidental. [4]

Adams 2007

Nick 1931 Actor Barbiturate overdose. Death ocially certied as [5]

Adams 1968 "accidental-suicidal and undetermined." High levels of sedatives were found in his blood.

Behan 1964 alcohol.

Jovan 1987 American Self-inicted gunshot wound after murdering girlfriend [34]Belcher 2012 football Kasandra Perkins. Belcher was found to have a blood player alcohol level of .17, double the legal limit where he died.

Gertrude 1868 Writer Overdose of sleeping pills. Whether it was an accident or [35]

Bell 1926 suicide was undetermined.

John 1949 Actor, Speedball. Accidental. [36]

Belushi 1982 comedian

Jay 1963 Guitarist Fentanyl overdose. Accidental. [37]

Bennett 2009 (Wilco)

Wes 1971 Musician Overdose. Traces of cocaine, propoxyphene, and [38]

Berggren 1999 (Tripping benzodiazepines were found in his body.

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George 1946 Football Lung infection and multiple organ failure brought on by [39][40]

Skip d. 2002 Singer Unspecied drug overdose. [77]

Capote drug intoxication.

Gia 19601986 Model AIDS-related complications contracted through [80]

Carangi intravenous heroin abuse.

Leslie 19862012 Singer While not attributing a cause of death, a police [81]Carter incident report stated Carter had suered an overdose and was taking the prescription medications olanzapine, cyclobenzaprine and alprazolam.

John 19291989 Writer, actor, Cirrhosis of liver due to alcoholism. [82]

Cassavetes director

Arthur 1999/2000 Son of Fell from a UK cli while under the inuence of LSD. [83]

Janis 1943 Musician Heroin overdose. [247]

Joplin 1970

Name Life Profession Cause of death Reference

Frida 1907 Artist Ocial cause of death listed as pulmonary embolism though [248]Kahlo 1954 modern biographers largely accept that she actually died of an unspecied opiate pain killer overdose. Suicide is disputed.

1978 (The Who) alcoholism. Accidental.

Odas Moon 1892 Pilot Reportedly "drank himself to death." [326]

1937

Ashleigh 1981 Actress Alleged drug overdose. [327]

Aston 2007Moore

Chester 1901 Actor Barbiturate overdose. [328]

Morris 1970

Jim 1943 Musician Ocial cause of death is recorded as heart failure, [329]Morrison 1971 (The Doors) though Sam Bernett claims that Morrison died in Bernett's club, with heroin overdose as the suspected cause.[329]

James 1926 Journalist, Sleeping pill overdose. Suicide. [330]

Mossman 1971 former MI6 agent

Billy Murcia 1951 Musician Contradicting sources report the death as alcohol- 1972 (New York related,[331] or drowning[332] after a drug overdose [333] Dolls) or as a drug overdose.[334]

Alice 1952 Socialite Heroin overdose. [349]

Ormsby- 1995Gore

Bryan 1978 Musician Prescription-drug overdose. Accidental. [65][350]

Ottoson 2005 (American Head Charge)

Name Life Profession Cause of death Reference

22/52Leila 1970 Princess, Secobarbital overdose. Found to have ve times the lethal [351]Pahlavi 2001 model amount in her system. Traces of a non-lethal amount of cocaine was also found in the bloodstream. Suicide or accidental death though is debated.